First UK edition. 8vo. 127 pp. Illustrated wraps.
Signed and dated by the Author to title page.
Author's twentieth collection of poetry, focussing on age-related losses, childhood memories, and the transforming magic of dreams. Title refers to bullfight posters hawked to tourists in Spain, with a blank space to fill in their name as torero, here similarly inviting readers to "personalize" the poems with their own memories and associations.
Ashbery won nearly every major American award going for poetry, including the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.